Resilience of upland soils to long term environmental changes

Geoderma

Volumn 197-198, Issue , 2013, Pages 36-42

  McGovern, S T ^a,c   Evans, C D ^b   Dennis, P ^c   Walmsley, C A ^d   Turner, A ^d   McDonald, M A ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollution; Climate change; Grazing; Land use; Nitrogen; Soil chemistry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES; EXCHANGEABLE BASE CATIONS; GRAZING; LONG-TERM CHANGES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PARENT MATERIALS; POLLUTION DEPOSITION; SAMPLING DATES; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL TYPES; SULPHUR DEPOSITION; UPLAND SOIL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAZING; ION EXCHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PARENT MATERIAL; PH; RESILIENCE; SAMPLING; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL SURVEY; SULFUR; SURVEYING; UPLAND REGION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84872810040     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.12.018     Document Type: Article

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